As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
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Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A thousand miles on these shoes is not out of the question. There's nothing in the mid-sole to crush down.
Kent Bohling
As a leading international processor, Vital continues to offer the latest market-leading wireless payment technologies to service our customers. TNS has been and continues to be, our sole partner in delivering and improving upon wireless services through the Synapse Payment Gateway.
Deborah Davis
I think the message one would hope the mayor would take away from this is that he is not the sole arbiter of standards in public life, that an elected official can nevertheless go beyond what is acceptable.
Jon Benjamin
Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death.
Richard Crashaw
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.
Charles Territo
(Voters) are not going to accept criticism as the sole source of messaging by the Democrats.
Al Cárdenas
To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the naturalBeauty, is the sole business of poetry.The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.
Robinson Jeffers
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis De Sade
We've just got to win Friday night to secure sole possession of first. We've already secured the No. 1 seed, but that's no good for me. I still want to win.
George Drawhorn
This was a huge win for us. We are right now in sole possession of second place in the region coming down the home stretch. We still have a lot of improving to do but this was a great performance (Friday).
Andy Gentry
It's highly unlikely she can succeed. Katherine Harris being our sole nominee is not in the party's best interest.
Al Cárdenas
I'm delighted to be part of an organization of dedicated journalists whose sole mission is to report the news every minute of every hour every day.
Connie Chung
The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Alice Stone Blackwell
"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen.
Anna Quindlen
When you look into business media, it's all about large, publicly traded companies. But the heart and sole of the economy is in private, closely held companies, like ECCO.
Bo Burlingham
That's the sole purpose of this event.
Salim Stoudamire
That's the sole reason. Before the inspection we could have put that part of the ground down for 4,000 to 5,000 spectators. Right now we're counting it as zero. We had to make a decision on that now, and that's why the capacity has been set at 13,000. As far as we're concerned that won't be changing before June 4th.
Michael Delaney
The state's position is that the bankruptcy filings in both cases were frivolous and for the sole purpose of delaying the eviction.
Tom Mccarthy
We formed LANS for the sole purpose of delivering to DOE and to the Laboratory the best combination of scientific and management expertise. Our team is eager to apply our expertise and capabilities to further benefit the Laboratory and the security of our nation.
Gerald Parsky
I've done thousands of interviews but never for the sole purpose of getting to know someone better.
Tom Rankin
Because it lures women in with a marketing scheme that purports feminism, when in actuality the sole owner of the company is an active misogynist.
The Bravery
What the court has decided now is that 'we are the sole and exclusive arbiter of what needs to be disclosed.' That rule seems somewhat extreme.
Jeffrey Toobin
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
John le Carre
The government's sole concern is to maintain its unchallenged grip on power at the cost of smothering the Chinese people's fundamental rights and freedoms.
Xiao Qiang
There is a big bureaucracy that can do many things without a head of state who's engaged 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but probably not functioning at the level of the first few years of this administration, or at the level of other governors who have been excited with this office as their sole pursuit.
Pam Wilmot
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy
I look at them as peers and I learn from them. We all do. They're friends that we've not yet met. They're enemies that we've not yet fought. They're traders that have not yet traded. You gotta love 'em. They're individuals and that's really the sole point of it all.
Chad Ginsburg
The sole purpose of the program ... is to have businesses pay more attention to who they sell alcohol to.
Sheriff's Lt. Darrel Yandell
In a nutshell, the agreement affirms that the clubhouse association has sole ownership of the golf course, buildings and all facilities therein. As part of the agreement that is not disputed.
Greg Brewer
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian
We don't believe wind is the sole answer to our energy needs, but we believe wind plays a larger role that it does today.
Steve Stengel
My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
Pauline Hanson
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
Leo Burnett
Overall growth in cell phone usage demonstrates a robust consumer demand for newer and better wireless products and services. And the wireless industry is not the only sole beneficiary of the demand. Technological advances and better service offerings have reduced cost per minute charges for consumers over time.
Tamara Gaffney
He did it. We know he did it. This is about whether that was the sole, individual intervening cause that was the cause of death of Jonathan U. It is that and nothing more.
Carl Cornwell
He was the sole support of his family. They're in very difficult financial circumstances.
Oscar Michelen
We don't know yet if the Mini Mart is the sole source of contamination. We will continue our investigation into other possible sources. However, the Mini Mart owners have been cooperative and are helping clean up the contamination.
Matt Rhodes
One of the good things that came out of this conference call is they confirmed there was no fraud. But they don't give any valid reasons for terminating Gerald Glenn, who has been the sole CEO since its public offering and has taken the company to new heights.
Stephen Best
He had a wife and two sons, was the sole support and caregiver for his 90-year-old mother, who lived with them.
Terry Hensley
There's 20 sports whose sole lifeline depends on football here. They can't exist without successful football. There's such a huge burden on football revenue, schools don't have a choice.
Terry Holland
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
Frederic Raphael
This imprisonment is shameful for a country like Poland, which has just joined the European Union and which is the sole member state to impose prison sentences on journalists for offences of opinion.
Reporters Without Borders
They don't want to set up shop in Pennsylvania for the sole purpose of redirecting gamblers to New Jersey.
Joe Weinert
The boundary issue was not the sole issue. It's the biggest issue now that's on the table and it needs to be dealt with. If things would have been different, would I have stayed? I don't know. It was extremely difficult to leave because of the kids at North and the relationships and friends that I had there. It was more than a baseball decision.
Ryan Mcginnis
We can't just destroy a resource for the sole purpose of getting it out of the water. We have to be responsible and treat it as a resource.
Robert Fisher
A U.N. that sees itself as a check on the sole superpower is doomed to fail. We would rather be a vehicle through which the U.S. works with the rest of the world.
Shashi Tharoor
Carriers have to think broadly, and I think they understand now that they can't rely on sole-vendor relationships. It's just a cost of doing business.
Jill Stelfox
What he said was, 'If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.' That's what he said.
Gordon Peterson
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Boris Pasternak
Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.
Frank Crane
My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter
In our deliberations, it became clear that Erskine Bowles was uniquely qualified among our applicants. Holding another round of interviews would have been superfluous, ... He emerged as the committee's sole finalist and support among the search committee was unanimous.
Bradley Wilson
My sole job is to serve Sam's (Clubs) and, hopefully soon, Wal-Mart. The success we have had at Sam's has not gone unnoticed by Wal-Mart.
Jim Haguewood
I think the park is a jewel. It shouldn't be on the sole burden of Lansing.
Bill Keith
They were the heart and sole of this team. They did everything they could to win. They should keep their heads held high.
Danielle Chaisson
I think I messed Charlie up last year, and he's too good of a person, too good of a talent not to be more productive than he was last year. I take sole responsibility for him not being productive.
Tommy Bowden
We regret that there were those whose sole purpose was destruction, which coloured the currents outside these buildings.
James Wolfensohn
It's still not clear ... It could have just been a fluke. There are a variety of plausible explanations for what occurred ... but at this point we have not isolated any one factor as the sole cause.
Matt Lindsay
Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - p%tZ, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
S. J. Perelman
The sole purpose of the company was getting me recorded. It was extraordinarily nice of them.
James Hunter
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
It was critical to the family that something positive come out of this tragedy. They kept him alive for that sole purpose.
Mark Nation
Is it a federal crime? Technically, yes. These mailboxes are designed for the sole usage of the postal service to serve customers. Items such as fliers or anything outside of correspondence or other mail matters is prohibited.
David Lewin
Reason is life's sole arbiter.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Anna Quindlen
The former KCA council has approved Cricket Kenya as the sole body to manage, run and administer the game of cricket in Kenya.
Samir Inamdar
He does not feel comfortable having anyone else helping him. But he loves his mom. I'm the sole caretaker of him. It makes me feel good that I'm here with him.
Joanne Daane
The decision-making process, with FCM leaving, resulted in my needing to make a decision faster than going with a large bid process, ... We sole-sourced it, and made the decision with counsel from the governor's office and Legislature.
Stan Taylor
The board has no intention of carrying out a capital increase with the sole purpose of blocking any kind of offer or diluting its shareholders.
Joseph Kinsch
We are actually creating these mobile music events for the sole purpose of making the content available for our customers ... on their wireless phones.
David Garver
The Kenya side reiterated that there was only one China in the world; the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing China, and Taiwan is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory.
Raphael Tuju
For the sole purpose of financial, professional or personal gain.
Phill Kline
I've never had any money bequeathed to me and I bought it all myself, so I take sole responsibility. But the bottom line is, I own this land.
Robert Mcvey
I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
It appears that the sole business of the debtor (Collins' and MLKSCI) is to own and operate real estate.
Tom Lester
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
Ambrose Bierce
Home rule gave city and county councils the authority to redistrict themselves, but it did not do that for school boards. The delegation, through the General Assembly, is the sole authority for changing school board district lines. A lot of delegations don't even let the school boards look at their plan until it's drawn up and done.
Bobby Bowers
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
Jane Addams
Do you believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of President Kennedy ?
James Rosen
Man is nature's sole mistake.
William S. Gilbert
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.
Dave Pelzer
I am very concerned that we spent all this time, money and energy for battle, where in other states they've been able to use their energy for positive change. For example, in Indiana they created an access counselor whose sole job is to ensure the public has access to government records.
Joel Campbell
Acquiring sole ownership gives us the opportunity to further develop and grow the CNBC product and brand globally.
Mark Hoffman
Biometrics will not be the sole technology being used for authentication, and it shouldn't be. Security is about adding layers, it's not about substituting technology, ... The human element [in security] is extremely important [and is achieved by] a combination of biometrics, identity, and smart card technology.
Chris Christiansen
Beyond this, I can only give you my personal assurance that our sole motivation in working on 'The Final Days' was to report the truth: neither money nor any preconceived disposition regarding Mr. Nixon was a factor in our reporting.
Carl Bernstein
If this was a robbery, a murder or a case of national security, and the sole eyewitness to the case says 'Please drop the charges,' do you think they would ever just obey the only witness' wishes? It's the military's responsibility to prosecute a crime because it's an offense to the military.
Wendy Murphy
Some people would rather be the 100 percent owner of a $100 million company than the partner of a $200 million company. They feel comfortable being the CEO and the sole decision-maker.
James Lowry
That's been our sole focus these past few days, to make sure our employees get their paychecks. After that, we'll start discussing the next steps.
Alan Feldman
What they told us was that a single marquee name like [Marc] Fisher or [Joel] Aschenbach, who has sole responsibility for doing this -- they're the ones who get compensated.
Eric Weiss
I was just trying to project forward what it would look like after this season. Winning is important, but is not the sole reason we have an athletics program. I want to be competitive and we weren't being competitive, but there were other issues.
Edgar Johnson
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